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The Impact of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Vaccination Policy in Importing Countries on U.S. Swine Meat Exports

Yang, Shang-Ho; Saghaian, Sayed H.; Reed, Michael R. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2010

Our previous research found that FMD Outbreaks in foreign countries have a significant positive influence on U.S. swine meat exports. However, not all of these FMD-affected countries adopted the same treatment policy to ease domestic FMD issues. This study proposes a gravity model with...

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Factors Impacting Participation In and Purchases Made by Members of the Oklahoma Food Cooperative

Holcomb, Rodney B.; Kenkel, Philip L. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2011

The Oklahoma Food Cooperative (OFC) facilitates transactions between producers and consumers of locally-grown food items. Even with more than 3,000 members and roughly $1M in annual sales, the OFC still needs to establish its long-term sustainability. Both customer-members and supplier-members...

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Agricultural Production Restrictions and Market Power: An Antitrust Analysis

Bolotova, Yuliya - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2015

During the recent decade the organizations of agricultural producers in the national dairy, potato, egg and mushroom industries implemented various pre-production and production restriction practices with the primary objective of agricultural output price stabilization. The buyers of the...

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Shopping outlet choice and frequency in urban areas of the Republic of Uganda

Madhavan-Nambiar, Padmanand; Florkowski, Wojciech; … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2015

This study examines the factors that decide where and how frequently members of urban households in the Republic of Uganda shop for food. Multivariate probit results reveal that income, education, employment status, household composition, and location influence shopping frequency in all five...

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Does Local Label Bias Consumer Taste Bud and Preference: Evidence of a Strawberry Sensory Experiment

He, Chenyi; Gao, Zhifeng; Sims, Charles A.; Zhao, Xin - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2015

Demand for local food, particularly for fresh vegetable and fruits, keeps increasing. Consumer claimed reasons of purchasing local food often include that local food are fresher, more environmental friendly and can support local community, which implies that the local information can affect...

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The Comparison of three Non-hypothetical Valuation Methods: Choice Experiments, Contingent Valuation, and Experimental Auction

Xie, Jing; Gao, Zhifeng - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2013

This article examines the preferences revealed by three non-hypothetical experiments. We found that WTP estimates from the choice experiment are the highest, followed by that of contingent valuation methods, and then experimental auctions. Our results also suggest that the discrepancies among...

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Economics of Fish Marketing in Central Uganda: A Preliminary Analysis

Bukenya, James O.; Hyuha, Theodora; Twinamasiko, Julius; … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2012

was designed to solicit information on traders’ socio-economic characteristics, marketing characteristics, operating costs … and returns, and problems associated with fish marketing in the study area. Percentages were used to describe the socio …-economic characteristics, market characteristic and problems associated with fish marketing while gross profit and marketing performance models …

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Do Consumers Really Care about Biotech Food Label? What Do We Know? What Else Should We Know?

Chen, Xi; Zhong, Funing; Zhou, Bin - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2009

This paper is Selected for presentation at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 31-February 3, 2009. The research is partially funded by ERS/USDA China Project and Social Science Fund of Jiangsu Province in China. The authors are grateful for...

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An Evaluation of Market Characteristics of Indiana Farmers' Markets

Hofmann, Christa; Dennis, Jennifer H.; Marshall, Maria I. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2008

Nationally, the number of operating farmers' markets has increased 111% in the past ten years from 1,755 markets to 3,706 from 1994 to 2004 (AMS, 2006). Indiana's farmers' markets has increased at double the rate in the same time frame. An internet and mail census was sent to market masters to...

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Modelling Reference-Dependent and Labelling Effects in Consumers’ Functional Food Choices

Zou, Ning Ning - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2009

This paper examines the reference-dependent and labelling effects when consumers make choices about functional foods, and explores how changes in reference points could alter individuals’ preferences. Functional food (Omega 3 milk) and regular food (regular milk) are used as examples to...

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